70 and 72, St Helen's Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1977. Store.
70 and 72, St Helen's Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-oriel-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ipswich
- Constituency
- Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1977
- Type
- Store
- OS grid reference
- TM 170 445
- Coordinates
- 52.05645, 1.1638
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
70 and 72 St Helen's Street is a 17th to 18th century timber-framed and plastered building that has mainly modern external features. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a two-window range with modern windows. The ground floor features 20th-century shop fronts. The roofs are tiled and include one gabled dormer. Despite the alterations, the building is included for its group value.
Local climate
70 and 72, St Helen's Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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